By the time a person reaches “the third act” you would think that they should have enough life experience to handle challenging situations with an advanced degree of peace and well-being. We have seen our share of challenging situations after all. Even so, I have to report that when it comes to certain challenging situations (read “technology updates” here), I have limited tolerance. This intolerance was much more acute in my second act and, although certain people may disagree, I believe that I’m quite a bit better now than I used to be. It was in this belief (that I am much better now) that I continued my journey into the new world of Windows 10. Would I be exiting purgatory or was I headed straight into Dante’s Inferno? It had to be the former given the ongoing, warm messaging telling me that everything went so well and that “everything” was “exactly” where I had left it. No matter how skeptical I may have been in the past I was “ready”…

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I believe that a key component to staying engaged in “the third act” is a willingness to keep learning. There is so much to learn after all and with all of the available possibilities, it takes some serious reflection time to figure out what to tackle next. It’s fun to review the options especially when the topic fits into the category of “fun” or “interesting”. There are however other topics that one “must” learn and some of these topics clearly do not fit into the category of “fun” or “interesting”. And so it was with this understanding (that not all learning is fun or interesting) that I braced myself and decided to begin my 2016 learning journey by stepping into the experience of upgrading my computer to Windows 10. After all, “how hard could it be”?

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